Comics

As do many young lads, my only real ambition prior to high school was to be a comic book artist. As my Homemade Comics blog attests, I spent a lot of time practicing the art of sequential storytelling, even if all I thought I was doing at the time was aping the stuff I devoured on a weekly basis from my local newsstand. After a premature rejection letter from Marvel Comics at age 13 and exposure to the more appealing pursuits of girls and rock ‘n’ roll, I left behind comics. But they never left me. Since 2009, when I launched a webcomic called The Utopian, I’ve been writing and drawing comics in a variety of venues, and also run a boutique comic book publishing and printing company called Pop! Goes the Icon.

I’ve also combined my journalistic skills with my artistic ones to produce comic-style illustrations for several publications, including VEGAS SEVEN and Insomniac.